Delhi-based Assamese scribe Kalyan Barooah succumbs to COVID-19

GUWAHATI:  Kalyan Barooah, an Assamese journalist working in Delhi as the special correspondent of The Assam Tribune, an Indian English daily has died of COVID-19 this morning around  8.40 am.

He had been infected with the novel Coronavirus.

His wife Nilakshi Bhattacharya who was also a Delhi-based Assamese journalist succumbed to the deadly virus yesterday.

Kalyan Barooah along with his wife Nilakshi Bhattacharya tested COVID-19 positive around 15 days ago, and both of them were undergoing treatment at Pratiksha Hospital in Gurugram.

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The death of Kalyan Barooah and his wife, both of whom were well-known among scribes all over, has cast a pall over the journalists' fraternity in Delhi as well as the Northeast.

Their only daughter too has been infected by the virus.

Barooah was the Delhi bureau chief of The Assam Tribune, a leading newspaper published from Assam, while Bhattacharyya was working with the Times group.

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